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The art of sketching from nature (1853)

Rowbotham, Thomas Leeson, 1783-1853, Rowbotham, Thomas Charles Leeson, 1823-1875 · London : Winsor and Newton · leaf 31

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27 OF THE DOWN-HILL VIEW. the waggon-wheels^ &c._, — tend towards the vanishing line L L, while the horizontal lines of the house and wall tend in the direction of the horizontal line^ and^ if pro- duced to that limits would converge and there be lost. In this example^ the lower extremity of the… … evidently^ — as^ according to the principle laid down, it ought to be, — higher on the plane of the paper than the upper one.

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